WORK IN PROGRESS.(Review)

Journal of Popular Film and Television | September 22, 2000| | Copyright

By Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz.

New York: Random House, 1998. 450 pp. $27.95 cloth.

As publicity stunts, Hollywood studios insured Jimmy Durante's nose and Betty Grable's legs. However, it is not for publicity that the Walt Disney Company has a $100 million insurance policy on its CEO, Michael Eisner. This may seem ludicrous, but in his autobiography, Work in Progress, he proves himself worth far more than that to the Disney organization. In a company founded seventy-five years ago, which became a worldwide phenomenon because of a little black mouse, ...

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